happy birthday
I’m trying to talk to you through this tube. My ear is at one end, steam is coming out the other. How’s this supposed to work? Our whole existence, maybe, is just a quirk.
Lovely seeds, open them up. The flow determines the direction. Or is it the direction the flow? I ponder often the difference between what I think and what I know.
We should take our time. We should have all day. Who decided to make a world where it wasn’t that way?
Millions of lines of code, just to produce the grass. But the grass is what fills the yards so the children have somewhere to dance.
Mapping out the quadrants and sections. This can be tough. Hard shapes are less forgiving than, say, your average fluff.
Here and now, but also there and then. There truly is no feeling like being present in the everywhen.
Oh I want to put it down now. A song from the east, a song from the west. The sirens of emergence will put them all to rest.
Happy birthday to me. Peaceful birthday to me. I’m not going to ignore today; I will focus my eyes to see.
We have choices to make, and daily bread to eat. There’s a painting I've seen that portrays this idea so complete.
Every morning, sipping dew from goblets of iron and wood. Isn’t it time that we have another look at what we haven’t understood?
People gathering in the forums to show off their marks of maturity. But we’re too eager to believe that throwing rocks doesn't affect our purity.
Something in the air as of late that can’t be filtered by machines. But our hearts can stop it; only our hearts have the right screens.
Cleaning up the confetti from a ten years ago parade. There's nothing we can’t fix if we understand how it was made.
You do you. I’ll do me. Dogs will do dogs. Trees will do trees. Whales will do whales. Fleas will do fleas.
Turn the page. Something that once was old will become new again with age.
And speaking of that. Speaking, speaking, thinking, thinking, all the way up until we’re sleeping.
Happy birthday to all life beginning just now. Learning to crawl, to speak, to form opinions, to take a vow.
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2023 or 2024